Why I will not buy an iphone!!

So the world (or at least USA) is going ga-ga over iPhone. I had a friend's relative borrow my second hand Nokia to be used for some time because that person wants to wait and get an iPhone.
But frankly, I will detest and lay off it (unless of course my company is going to provide it and it definitely won’t. If you do not know why it won’t I will give you a reason very shortly).
Firstly at $500/$600 a pop for a 4gig and 8gig respectively it is not cheap. But a more bigger grouse is that for that money, the iPhone is not unlocked. What the hell?????? Sticking to a service plan after shelling out tons of money and sticking to a mediocre service plan for that tons of money and sticking to it for 2 years, it outrageous!! This is just a way Cingular/AT&T (frankly will they call themselves just 1 name, bloody hell keeps changing every year. Cingular becomes AT&T one year and next year AT&T is the new Cingular. Somebody drill some brains into the company heads. Ok enough of my trademark digression) can just reap benefits by millions and do this for 2 year, TWO bloody YEARS!! Very nice business strategy for them, and lots of headache for the customers. What about those who buy the iPhone and move to a different place only to discover that there is no signal whatsoever in that place. Apple did a bad call by tying up with one service provider. What happened to their available and free for all strategy (say one stuff for Mac, contradict the same for iPhone).

Secondly, so it can do a lot of on the go browsing, which is going to be ridiculously slow. Why?? In case you haven’t heard, iPhone comes with EDGE compatibility, not 3G. Any1 wants to take a guess which is the faster (or should I say the fastest) of the two. Yup you got it and no prizes (even Apple doesn’t give prizes)!! To top it EDGE on AT&T, wonderful!! You might bee waay better off asking for information by calling a friend, which might be faster, provided you get Cingular’s (oops AT&T) network first.

Thirdly, do people even think and realize how much it is going to cost in case you keep browsing on the iPhone. AT&T isn’t going to come with a specialized customized package free for all unlimited plan. Even if it does, I can seriously bet and say it will not be anything less than $100/month. Assuming it is 100/month, that’s a recurring charge of $1200/year AT THE VERY LEAST. If no such plan exist, people will just not use the internet feature and I don’t even want to go to accessing YouTube from the iPhone. If children do make use of all this features, the bill that parents will encounter will give a super strong reason to take away these phone. But why will Apple or AT&T care about this, it’s the customer (and their children’s headache) How many people with personal Treos, BlackJacks and Qs keep browsing??? iPhone will enable you to access your Yahoo and Google e-mail accounts—This on a EDGE network, that will cost you an arm and leg to access e-mails and in regions that I most likely wont get network access?? No Thanks, I will wait to get home.

Fourthly, no company will in their right sense (unless they simply mint heck a lot of money and wants to keep employees very very happy- Genentech bought and gifted all their employees a iPod nano in 2005) buy and give an iPhone to the employees. Why?? Very simple, because iPhone does not support corporate account and e-mails. If this is not available, what is the value add for the company to do such a thing. Employees may love it, but when it comes to practicality its uber-stupid. Additionally, if the company does give a iPhone on a corporate account, people will browse through the same (whenever available) like to no tomorrow. This is one of the best formula for successful filing for bankruptcy.

Lastly, any phone needs to be a phone first, the rest of bells and whistles next. iPhone largely depends on the network, and if AT&T is going to be as crappy as it is, iPhone is going to be terribly underutilized (other than listening to Mp3- but wasn’t that the reason why people bought the iPods??). If it is not going to be clear when you use to speak with, what is the point in shelling out $500+. Just think of all these factors, before rushing out to get one.

All this without even going to how good or bad the iPhone as a product is, without considering what its battery life capability is.
But all said and done, I am pretty darn sure that there is going to be a mad rush to grab the iPhone and it will sell like hot cakes. Why?? Because it is the in-thing, a coolness factor. I certainly wont, I detest and overlook high level marketing that just thinks it is the only cool thing. This is a very reason I stayed away from iPod, and this is the reason I will stay away from iPhone. That said, I have nothing against Apple, they came out with Mac, which is different from the PCs (although I do own a PC- the cost difference factor is tooo much to justify a Mac for me).
I stayed away from iPod (Creative Zen is a faar better product, with lot more features for a lot less cost) and will stay away from iPhone (my Treo does its job incredibly well thank you) and will revisit the same Thalaivar’s saying that I used some time ago.

Yen Vazhi Thanii Vazhi!!